BioWare's four vs. one narrative-driven experimental game project has been canceled according to this Game Informer report. The title, which was in development at BioWare's Austin, Texas studio was officially announced at Gamescom in August of last year, and the media was given some hands-on time with it shortly thereafter. GI says that its reporting is based on multiple sources close to the situation.

Electronic Arts has laid off an undetermined number of employees at its EA Montreal studio according to what the company tell Gamasutra in this report. A source close to the situation also tells Gamasutra that the division might be in for some very hard times in the future.

The fine folks at PlayStation Lifestyle have created a helpful 40-second video to help those Battlefield Hardline beta participants with a strange problem occurring on the PlayStation 4. According to the site, the PS4 version of the beta is currently suffering from a strange bug with the server browser in the game. Sometimes when loading it up it shows no players at all.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Organization for Transformative Works have jointly filed an amicus brief in Davis v. Electronic Arts currently before the Ninth Circuit court. In its brief the EFF says that "bad facts are making bad law," referring to several court rulings related to celebrities using lawsuits about "rights to publicity" against creative works to trump free speech.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has named U.S. Patent 8,529,350 January’s "Stupid Patent of the Month." You may recall our story from earlier this month in which White Knuckle (the patent holder) sued Electronic Arts over the patent which relates to "remotely updating a sports video game based on real-world events." The company says that several of EA's sports titles including Tiger Woods PGA Tour and its NCAA titles infringe on the patent.

According to this Joystiq report, a company named White Knuckle filed a lawsuit last week against Electronic Arts claiming that the company's sports titles infringe on U.S. Pat. No. 8,529,350, a software method patent that relates to recording "real-world parameters, then storing those elements on a server so players can download to update their games." The patent was approved by the USPTO in October 2002.

Electronic Arts announced this morning that its "On The House" program will feature Bullfrog classic Theme Hospital. No doubt inspired by the company's hit game Theme Park, Theme Hospital is a classic strategy game that puts you in charge of keeping a top notch medical facility running and keeping its not necessarily willing customers as happy as one can while they are receiving medical treatment...

Although a number of users in this Reddit thread are reporting that they have been charged for games they didn't buy (or want) on EA's digital distribution and multiplayer platform Origin, the company claims that it has not had a security breach. Several users within the Reddit thread claim that they are being charged for games they didn't buy and other suspicious account activity.

Respawn Entertainment founder Vince Zampella admits that he may have erred on the decision to make the PC version of Titanfall Origin-only and revealed just how many people are currently playing the game. Speaking to Game Informer, Zampella describes the game as "obviously pretty successful."

Electronic Arts COO Peter Moore has called out social media network Twitter for the way it handles harassment and threats after finding himself the target of some pretty egregious threats himself. It all started with a tweet from a user named "xbox_gamer87" with the profile name "Robertclarke." He tweeted at Moore:

"Hope your wife gets raped." He followed that tweet up with more of the same:

EA has released a new Battlefield Hardlines trailer highlighting some of the game's single player story mode. Developed by Visceral Entertainment, Battlefield Hardlines is a cops v. robbers action game built using the same engine as Battlefield 4. Some have complained that the game glorifies the militarization of the police and violence against police officers, amongst other things.

You can check out the new trailer to your left.

Battlefield Hardline is set for release March 17 in the US and March 19 in Europe on PC, PS4, Xbox One, PS3 and Xbox 360...

EA Mobile claims that titles in its mobile games catalog have been collectively downloaded two billion times. That milestone was reached earlier in the week, according to EA.

To celebrate this milestone, EA Mobile is giving away in-game content in several of its titles. By playing any of the titles list below (which are available on Android and iOS) between now and December 17, you'll get some extra goodies.

Electronic Arts says that the days of it acquiring developers and big franchises to be successful has had mixed results and is something the company plans on doing rarely moving forward. For every successful acquisition (BioWare, an DICE) there are a number of companies whose work did not flourish under the auspices of being an EA owned brand. EA has acquired many companies that were later shut down or turned into a brand like Mythic Entertainment and Pandemic.

Electronic Arts has announced that it will not be releasing Dragon Age Inquisition in India. Apparently the mature-rated role-playing game created by BioWare runs afoul of "local content laws." While EA denies that its decision not to bring the game to India has nothing to do with same-sex relationships in the game, others disagree - including India's NDTV Gadgets who cite EA's Indian retail distributor, Milestone Interactive.

EA is offering players a free week-long trial of Battlefield 4 on Origin as part of its ongoing Game Time promotion. The game, which had a very rocky launch and caused a lot of bad blood between players and EA, will have everything unlocked - including the full single-player campaign - during this free preview.

Any progress made during the free preview can be carried over to the full game if you decide to buy it.

Electronic Arts announced this morning that its "On The House" program will feature Origin's (the company founded by Richard Garriott, not the DRM'd digital distribution system of the same name) popular action role-playing game classic, Crusader: No Remorse. The game will be free for the entire month of November. Of course, to get the game for free, you need to have an Origin account and the Origin client installed.

A U.S. District Court has ruled that Electronic Arts cannot be held liable for securities fraud for being confident about the launch of Battlefield 4. Last year two plaintiffs representing a class of investors sued EA for making "false and misleading assurances" to investors that its latest game in the Battlefield series was ready for launch.

Multiplayer Network Innovations, LLC has added Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, Tecmo Koei Games Co., Ltd., Iron Galaxy Studios, LLC, Tencent Holdings Limited, and Tencent America to its growing list of court room combatants in multiple lawsuits claiming that these companies violate an abstract patent for "Interactive Multiple Player Game System and Method of Playing a Game Between at Least Two Players," or "MNI."

Electronic Arts announced this morning that its "On The House" program will feature BioWare's popular role-playing game Dragon Age: Origins for the month of October. To get the game for free, all you need to do is have an Origin account and the Origin client installed. If you have those things already, you can download the game for free from this link.

DICE LA producer David Sirland admits that his company lost player trust with the less-than-stellar launch of Battlefield 4. When the game launched in 2013 it was a mess on all platforms, and the trouble with technical issues and server stability continued well into 2014.

The U.S. Supreme Court has chosen not to hear a "rights of publicity" case - a topic it hasn't addressed for decades involving Electronic Arts. The Supreme Court on Thursday denied EA's request to appeal a 9th Circuit Court ruling for a class of college athletes led by former Nebraska and Arizona State quarterback Sam Keller (Keller v. EA).

Keller sued the company and the NCAA in 2009 for using his image and likeness without compensating him in EA's NCAA-branded football and basketball games.

You might be under the impression that the video game company that make the most money in the world would be Electronic Arts, Sony, Microsoft, Activision, or even Google and Apple. But according to a new report from New Zoo that distinction belongs to Tencent.

In an interview with Polygon, Visceral Games' Ian Milham, the creative director of the upcoming cops v. robbers first-person shooter Battlefield Hardlines, tackles the thorny subject of the militarization of police departments in America. The subject came to the forefront of conversation after the police force in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri rolled out armored vehicles and military gear in response to large scale protests over the shooting of Michael Brown.

You know you are starting to get a bad reputation when you have to assure customers that your "game will work" at launch. That is what Visceral Games is saying today about Battlefield Hardline, the company's militarized police versus dangerous criminals shooter. The spin-off game based ever-so-loosely on DICE's popular military shooter series is being developed by Dead Space creators Visceral Games, in case you didn't know.

President Barack Obama will announce a nationwide public service campaign that urges young people to do more to help prevent sexual assaults on college campuses across the United States, the New York Times reports. The campaign, "It’s on Us,” will utilize celebrities (to be named later) and partner with game publisher Electronic Arts, according to the report.

Electronic Arts announced this morning that its "On The House" program will feature PopCap’s incredibly-addictive puzzler Bejeweled 3 this month. To get the game for free, all you need to do is have an Origin account and the Origin client installed. If you have those things already, you can download the game for free from this link. Once you download the game and add it to your game library once, you own if and can download it again whenever you want according to EA.

Reclaim Your Game (RYG), an organization dedicated to uncovering the secrets hidden in games (like DRM, and questionable clauses in end-user license agreements, terms of service of agreements, and privacy policies rolled into game releases), has taken the time to dig through The Sims 4, the latest release in EA's popular people simulator for various platforms.

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ZippyDSMlee: .....win8 hates any left over hidden install partitions from other version of windows....only waste 5 hours finding that out...its ahrder than you think keeping up with 4 or 5 HDDS......03/03/2015 - 4:44am

Matthew Wilson: I am going to pax east, any games you guys want me to check out?03/02/2015 - 11:23pm

ZippyDSMlee: No one remembers the days of Cinemagic and Cynergy eh? :P, meh even MGS is getting to film like....03/02/2015 - 8:44pm

MechaTama31: I was about to get all defensive about liking Metal Gear Solid, but then I saw that he was talking about "cinematic" as a euphemism for "crappy framerate".03/02/2015 - 8:29pm

prh99: Just replace cinematic with the appropriate synonym for poo and you'll have gist of any press release.03/02/2015 - 5:34pm

Monte: Though from a business side, i would agree with the article. While it would be smarter for developers to slow down, you can't expect EA, Activision or ubisoft to do something like that. Nintnedo's gotta get the third party back.02/28/2015 - 4:36pm

Monte: Though it does also help that nintendo's more colorful style is a lot less reliant on graphics than more realistic games. Wind Waker is over 10 years old and still looks good for its age.02/28/2015 - 4:33pm

Monte: With the Wii, nintnedo had the right idea. Hold back on shiny graphics and focus on the gameplay experience. Unfortunatly everyone else keeps pushing for newer graphics and it matters less and less each generation. I can barely notice the difference02/28/2015 - 4:29pm

Monte: ON third party developers; i kinda think they should slow down to nintendo's pace. They bemoan the rising costs of AAA gaming, but then constantly push for the best graphics which is makes up a lot of those costs. Be easier to afford if they held back02/28/2015 - 4:27pm

Matthew Wilson: http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/02/28/the-world-is-nintendos-if-only-theyd-take-it/ I think this is a interesting op-ed, but yeah it kind of is stating the obvious.02/28/2015 - 2:52pm